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Daytime desert lightshow

The Very Large Telescope in northern Chile is treated to a stunning daytime view.

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert played host to a spectacular circumhorizontal arc – a phenomenon where flat ice crystals bend light to produce a vivid, colourful streak in the sky.